Category: General

Google have long been known for their clean simple interface – a search box and a few links, making it simple to understand what to do. And then they brought out their personalised pages, for you to add your own data feeds, widgets and tools. Now they take this a step further, with the ability […]

IMG_6124.JPG, originally uploaded by RachelC. On Saturday, fans of Ze held a party to ‘celebrate’ the end of show. Most people there had never met each other but had the common lik of watching the show and connecting online via the forums and the ORG. I volunteered to take the group photo, to go with […]

Red Nose 2005, originally uploaded by RachelC. The Red Nose from 2 years ago. Don’t have one this year as not there.

Whilst chatting with Ewan as we watch the Superbowl on different sides of the atlantic, we got to Prince and the half time show. Neither of us were impressed to say the least. But best quote of the night so far goes to Ewan about Prince’s ‘Nora Batty’ headscarf it might be the wardrobe malfunction […]

For some reason, I’m drawn to go buy a Mac. No real need for one (except for the oddities of my current PC) so I’m trying to resist. I think I’m being brainwashed by the sheer volume of Apple stuff in the office.

An interesting article in The Sunday Times examining the state of the UK universities and whether it is worth going to them to get a degree. Nothing too new in the writing, it’s a story that pops up every few months in various papers. On the one hand you need a degree to get a […]

I have a landline (or at least a VoIP version of one). The only people who have the number are may parents. And the phone company. Who seem to have no problem giving that number to all and sundry resulting in a multitude of spam calls. Which I thought was not allowed. And the do […]

Don’t do this at home – Rav 4 (Toyota) have 2 videos sitting out on the web showing people riding along on cars and jousting. Unlike Grolsch Holland, this is completely siloed though and you can only see it on their site. No downloads or embeds for the Rav 4 fans then. No trusting what […]

The last thing I did before I left the parents was to set up the Slingbox. After working out I needed to change MAC addresses on the router, I eventually got the whole thing working well and then moved things around and wired them in. (Ethernet to the Slingbox, phoneline to the Tivo, all across […]

My brother-in-law has been hassling me about what I’ve been doing this past week (apart from hiding when the family all descends en masse to create havoc). Not too much at all, to be honest, just chilling out in the main. I’ve updated my geneology pages, been digging up records of a few more dead […]

You have to have seen the Dove Evolution video, now see Slob Evolution, from the Campaign Against Real Life.

If you have read any kind of technology blog, or peruse the top search terms on Technorati, you will have come across the blogstorm that was leWeb3. It’s still top of the search terms on that site. Last year, the same conference garnered some controversy after a key speaker reacted to comments on the IRC […]

Time to be creative. Design a snowflake and trigger a donation to the salvation army. Let those creative juices flow.

After a few weeks down (difficulties co-ordinating me, a phone, a PC and a network connection all at the same time), the site is back up. At least for now. We’ll see how long it stays up or if it is pulled again by the ISP.

I had read about how bad Time Warner cable were but did not really expect it to be this bad. The first issue was the inability of being able to turn up within the 4 hour time span allotted to the order. The guy was only 20 minutes late, but it would have been far […]